Remarks
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Taxonomic remarks (pers. com. T. Reinecke, Bochum, 01/2025: Vincent (1876, p. 125, pl. 6, fig 3) [2470] named a single tooth from the Hannut Formation (“Lower Landenian”), lower Thanetian, of Wansin near Hannut, Belgium as Oxyrhina winkleri. The holotype is deposited at the Institute of Natural Sciences Brussels as IRSNB P 00002. The specimen, probably a lateral tooth of the upper jaw, has a distally slightly inclined, relatively slender but not very high crown, broad root branches (of which the mesial branch is basally and marginally damaged), and a pair of low, rounded lateral cusplets, of which the mesial is lower than the distal and separated from the main cusp by a shallow notch.
Cappetta (2006, p. 250) [351] synonymized Oxyrhina winkleri Vincent, 1876 without further discussion with the Middle Eocene species Oxyrhina nova Winkler, 1874 (= Anomotodon novus (Winkler, 1874)). A new illustration of the type specimen and its 3D-model cast doubt on this assessment. In particular, the course of the crown heels is atypical for lateral teeth of Anomotodon novus (Winkler, 1874), where the cutting edges on the lateral heels slope in a basal direction, but do not form low cones or convex tips as in Oxyrhina winkleri (compare with Casier, 1967 [422], pl. 7, fig 9; Nolf, 1988 [1813], pl. 32; Van den Eeckhaut & De Schutter, 2009 [6205], pl. 15, figs 4, 9, 10; and www.shark-references.com/species/view/Anomotodon-novus). Alternatively, we suggest the holotype of Oxyrhina winkleri to be placed in synonymy with Striatolamia striata (Winkler, 1874), whose lateral teeth have very similar features to the holotype and are common in the Thanetium of Belgium and northern France (e.g., Casier, 1967 [422]; Baut & Génault, 1995 [147]).)

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